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Welcome to Clief Notes. Here's where to start.
1. Watch the intro video and introduce yourself in the intro post here 2. Start with The Foundation (free course). Concepts, folder architecture, prompting framework. Everything else builds on this. 3. Check in at the bottom of each lesson. Polls, discussion posts, other members working through the same stuff. Use them. 4. When you're ready to build real things, move to Implementation Playbooks (Level 2). When you're ready to build your own tools, Building Your Stack (Level 3). 5. Post your work. Ask questions. Help others when you can. What are you here to build?
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🏆 WEEKLY COMP #3 WINNER ....
Before I get to the who and why, I want to say this plainly. Picking a winner this round was genuinely hard. I went through every submission. Pulled repos. Read identity files. Compared rules.md sections. Every entry did real work. A lot of you shipped something I would happily use, sell, or hand a client tomorrow. I can NOT explain to you how proud I am of everyone participating in these, you make this community worth and it and there is SO much potential for the future from just ONE competition let alone future ones. 💼 That part matters more than the prize. The $325 covers a year of Premium and that's great but... The portfolio piece is the real value here. A public repo of a working folder-based AI specialist with a clean README and receipts is a resume line that hiring managers can clone and test cold in five minutes. It is also something you can charge for. If you built a specialist that solves a real problem in a real domain, you already have most of what you need to license it to a peer in your industry, sell it as a service, or package it as a Done-with-You engagement. A few quick notes on that, because most of you did not realize what you actually built and I want to Highlight a few of you: 💸 @Nicolas Patron Uriburu USD Routing Coach AR could be sold to every Argentine indie consultor I know. Same playbook works for any country with FX restrictions. Subscription service, recalibrated annually, audit-pack included. It is a product. 🔗 https://github.com/Nicopatron/usd-routing-coach-ar 🔧 @Jannetje van Leeuwen RAMS specialist is a service business in waiting. Irish signage contractors will pay for this. Same model works for any trade with a regulatory documentation burden. Plumbing, electrical, fit-out, demolition. Each one needs its own folder. 🔗 https://github.com/JannetjeIQ/rams-irish-signage-installer
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I come asking for help! (NEW ROUND! VOTE ONCE A DAY PLS)
Because of the Amazing support you all gave for the first Round Wylder (my step daughter) made it into the second round! You can vote once a day and some days are 2x votes ! I would love love love if any of you support her going to work with some of the best animal rescues in the world to just cast at least one free vote if you can! You can vote here! Not Ai related so sorry for that ! Wylder | Junior Ranger
What Do You Put In Your Database?
First post here, so be gentle, lol. I'm having a hard time wrapping my perception about what kind of data you can, or should put into yours for your AI memory. I've been messing around with computers and by extension data manipulation, since the 70s. I have a good understanding of how a relationship database runs. But we're not building that kind of ecosystem(?) are we? We can go bigger. Before I dug deeper, I always picture an LLM like Chatgpt, as having this huge massive brain, which held all of the Internet, and when I asked would wave it's virtual hands to say "Here it is". I know that's incorrect. I'm using AI as a research assistant and junior co-writer. I'm doing a non-fiction book what kind of skills you'll need to make money in the next 20 years. I'm doing a ton of digging for trends and possibilities and...all of you have a good idea of what that means, I'm sure. I went into this thinking it would be more like a Wiki compiled form all my research and conclusions but is that what I want? Seems like there so much more than just a glorified book list. I do want to have a folder style system, with the full transcripts, complete articles, or other important documentation that I need. That's doable too. But recently, I wanted to start at least collecting the base data. If I don't start doing that, I'm just digging my hole deeper. So I laid down a basic schema, and then asked GPT to pull me 5-6 highlights that it thought should go into the database. Once I get the workflow built, I pretty sure I'll try to automate it, so as I research, the AI formats and stores any highlighted data I come across. It pulled those six, then another three from our discussions on the first six, and we were in a side chat at the time, the main chat was on markdown files. We got 10 entries from that. So I had nineteen. I haven't done any more, but when I look at what I have, I get this weird vibe that the majority of them aren't on the book subject, but are more of how the LLM views the way I work? That's a poor description of it, I hope it works.
What Do You Put In Your Database?
Class, meet Brofessor.
TL;DR /brofessor is ICM-based skill that helps clean up AI-agent workspaces. It's also a small persona factory: the audit engine stays the same, but you can switch and create personas, and even tune them with a CONFIG.md It checks whether your docs, routing, stages, review gates, and context-loading patterns make sense. It finds bloat, confusion, contradiction, and overbuilt process junk. Then it proposes the smallest safe fix, waits for approval, executes only what you approve, and wraps up with a clear synthesis. It is half workspace auditor, half context janitor, half theatrical menace. Yes, that is three halves. The math is fine. Keep moving. Grab it, run it on a messy workspace, and let it bully your docs into behaving. - Brofessor iight now that that's out of the way, I'm going to explain why this shit actually bangs - actually fuck it imma let him explain this too. ps - this skill was made in 3 prompts, I can show you how I did it if anyone's curious... - yuckyyy Yep — replace the longer **“How It Works”** section with this: ```md ## How It Works Brofessor works because the prompt is built like a layered workspace auditor, not a generic “clean up my docs” request. ### 1. Core Directive: Treat the Workspace Like a Factory The prompt frames the repo as a multi-stage context system: - each stage has inputs - each stage produces outputs - each stage loads only what it needs - stable rules live outside active work - review gates control movement between stages So Brofessor is not asking, “Are these files tidy?” It is asking, “Can agents move through this workspace predictably?” ### 2. Layer Model: Give Every File a Job Brofessor audits through five layers: - **Layer 0:** workspace identity - **Layer 1:** map/orientation - **Layer 2:** routing/context loading - **Layer 3:** stable rules, contracts, criteria - **Layer 4:** active products and outputs This prevents the classic markdown soup problem where `CLAUDE.md`, `CONTEXT.md`, plans, rules, drafts, and review notes all start pretending to be the boss.
Class, meet Brofessor.
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